Editorials

Just not ready.
That now-famous slam that Conservative attack ads have been levelling at Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau all summer is probably a good description of how the country feels about Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision Sunday...

For Nova Scotians who value fair and open discussion and the basic principles of democracy, a Conservative Party of Canada nomination meeting for Central Nova held on the weekend raises questions.
Unlike the Liberals and NDP at their Sunday...

Canadians are mourning one of this province’s most illustrious daughters this week following the weekend death of former Tory cabinet minister Flora MacDonald.
Born in North Sydney, Ms. MacDonald’s interest in politics and the world...

A maternal figure. A remote headland in Cape Breton. A tribute to Canada’s war dead.
Put them together and you have Tony Trigiani’s ambitious vision for a war memorial at Green Cove in Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
On the...

Tourism Minister Mark Furey is making a good call in saying the province will improve warning signs at Peggys Cove and consider other measures to educate visitors about the risk being swept into the sea if they venture too far on the rocks.
Taking...Read More

Like Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities, a story of the French Revolution, the external task force into the misogyny, sexism and homophobia at Dalhousie’s Faculty of Dentistry gives us a social portrait of “the best of times and...Read More

Once again last week, a group of Canadians who aren’t normally out protesting took to the streets to object to federal government policy.
And once again, an issue affecting a relatively small group of people has blown into a damaging series...Read More

There are striking and hopeful things about the blueprint for the “Restorative Inquiry” into abuses at the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children that the provincial government and former residents unveiled Friday.
First, this is not...Read More

The executive summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, written after a six-year exploration of the destructiveness of the residential school system for all Canadians, should be required reading for all.Read More

The two fathers of the federal Conservative party’s 2003 confederation dropped into Stellarton on Friday afternoon.
Justice Minister Peter MacKay came to announce his retirement from federal politics “because I love my family more....Read More

Premier Stephen McNeil did the right thing on Wednesday by acknowledging that a misunderstanding of election laws led to taxpayers initially, and wrongly, paying for recent Liberal caucus mail-outs to three Nova Scotia ridings soon headed for...Read More

As expected, Finance Minister Joe Oliver has used a two-month delay in tabling the 2015-16 federal budget to do some creative scrambling to deliver a small surplus and to pay for expensive tax-cut and child-care-benefit promises, while coping with a...Read More

It will be no surprise to anyone when federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver tables a budget on Tuesday that’s heavy on political calculation.
There will be targeted goodies, like bigger breaks for retirement savings, and the trumpeting of...Read More

Add two more investigations to the list of official inquiries that, over the last 25 years, have found no evidence of wrongdoing or police cover-up related to the May, 1990 death of 17-year-old Clayton Miller in a wooded drinking hangout for youth...Read More

Bolstered by a mass rally outside the legislature, film industry reps head back to a second meeting with Finance Minister Diana Whalen on Friday. Their mission: to see if a compromise can be reached on the budget’s major changes to the film...Read More

Higher education received an increase of only one per cent to next year’s operating funds of almost $325 million in Finance Minister Diana Whalen’s budget on Thursday.
But the budget’s real gift to the province’s 10...Read More

Good luck is scarce enough in Nova Scotia finances. It’s even rarer to see a government make good luck better by its own actions to get costs under control.
There is a lot of both in the budget Finance Minister Diana Whalen tabled Thursday,...Read More

The pre-budget scrap over Nova Scotia’s film tax credit is riddled with confusing terms and conflicting big numbers. And it certainly isn’t short on celebrity drama.
Not with Bubbles, Julian and Ricky of Trailer Park Boys fame leading...Read More

Political junkies are closely following suspended Conservative senator Mike Duffy’s much-anticipated trial on 31 charges of fraud and breach of trust, which starts today in Ottawa.
The trial promises to illuminate some of the murkier corners...Read More